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Phishing is an attempt to steal user's personal information such as username, password, credit card number etc. The main idea of such attack is that the attacker pretends to be a trusted web-site which asks the user to re-enter the personal information and in this way steels it.

I receieved an e-mail which at first glance appeared to be from a friend, I clicked on the link provided without thinking as we would often exchance links to sites. The link went nowhere i.e page not ...

My email-provider's website (http://www.gmx.de) recently started linking to the (German) site http://www.browsersicherheit.info/ which basically claims that due to its capabilities to modify a site's ...

I received this email from what is supposedly Facebook today. Here's a screenshot:
I was not aware I had credits or credits existed on Facebook and apparently I have $2.30 worth. It looks legitimate ...

If you visit a blocked domain name like www.thelotbet.cn from Google Chrome, Opera or Firefox, you will get a warning from Google Safe Browsing that this is a malicious website. But if you visit the ...

In the attack detailed here, I see that a hacker has actually added a malicious post link. What I do not understand is how the attacker added it to the actual myspace.comdomain.
Obviously this is an ...

Recently media have reported that a file of about 5 million gmail address and password pairs was published on a Russian Bitcoin forum.
A media article on the leak
Other media have reported that the ...

I know of at least two pages that I would have just assumed were a phishing scheme if I didn't know any better.
Serverfault.com is a stack exchange site on a different domain, however if you click to ...

About 6 days ago my parents who aren't great with PCs got phished on gmail, and the account started spreading spam.
It had been hacked on an Argentinian IP, and then logged in from IMAP and SMTP from ...

I've recently received two spam messages that show a possibly worrying degree of knowledge about my contacts, and I'm wondering how concerned I should be.
Specifically, the names -- but not the email ...

My mum (on Gmail, using Chrome) received an email from a friend's Hotmail address. She opened the email (very obviously a phishing email) and clicked a link in it. This opened a webpage with loads of ...

One of our co-workers followed a phishing link and entered their Google for Business account credentials. We have reset their password, is there anything else we need to do? (We also used this as a ...

[This is a "soft" question and as such I'm not sure it's appropriate for this site. However, it does involve information security.]
I have an email address, me@gmail.com that is not associated with ...

I've been confused about how it is possible to compromise a Facebook user's account simply if that user clicks a link. Recently a friend of mine on Facebook posted a series of links to what appeared ...

OBJECTIVE:
We have a requirement to run active scan for detecting and monitor phishing websites for a particular brand.
We want to be as real-time as possible. That would mean that using sites like ...

My father in law just had a problem,He clicked on a link in an email (he was using gmail on the version 35.0.1916.114m of Chrome), and suddenly the computer sort of went black, and possibly something ...

I was sent an innocuous and genuine looking e-mail with "Welcome back to Facebook" from the address "notification+mnqx54sr@facebookmail.com". I deactivated my account long ago, so was a tad surprised. ...

I own a set of REST APIs and some of them don't require users to be authenticated.
Example could be: api/items/index of an e-commerce".
Currently, I use Cookie-based tokens from my application, but ...

Our University recently had a case where some notorious fellows used a fake emailing service to send an email to all students on behalf of the administration. Although most good email services (like ...

Recently I've been receiving in my SPAM folder, SPAM mails sent "by me".
With "By me" I mean, that I am not sure if those are really sent from me.
It has been happening since December, at around one ...

I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this email a friend of mine got is legit or a scam. The weird thing is there's only one link to facebook.com, which is the one about facebook terms. All the ...

I installed Firefox using a download site, rather than the correct site.
After running and installing Firefox I noticed my Chrome had an addon called swift browser added to it by a third party. After ...

Seeing as phishing is getting more popular and users are becoming less concerned about security, I am trying to come up with a solution for a new site of mine that can stop phishers. For instance, any ...

I've been recently searching for a backup solution for my Windows desktop. That's when I came across this free software called EasyUS Todo Backup. (I know it's a mouthful but English doesn't seem to ...

When using a modern web browser, if you hover on a link, the browser will show you the link in a little display on the bottom left corner of the browser screen.
Can I trust this? Can this display be ...

Seeing as phishing is getting more popular and users are becoming less concerned about security, I am trying to come up with a solution for a new site of mine that can stop phishers. For instance, any ...

I have the following example POST request as part of a feedback form for a website that allows for an arbitrary value to be supplied to the "done_url" parameter, allowing for an open redirect after ...